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Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace q

• To: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>, <xerces-j-dev@x...>, <sax-devel@l...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: [Sax-devel] Re: SAX survey: expected local name for non-namespace qualified elements
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 10:55:36 -0400
• In-reply-to: <001201c20a45$3f445820$0207a8c0@karl>
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At 10:53 AM 6/2/2002 -0400, Karl Waclawek wrote:
>Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
> > If "namespace processing is off and we've never heard of namespaces", then
> > we've never heard of QNames either.  If you insist on going this route,
> > you'd better change the API to remove the notion of QName when namespace
> > processing is off.  "Local name" might at least mean "the name local to 
> the
> > element" in cases without any understanding of namespaces.
>
>I understand it the same way. The confusion in this thread really is:
>if NS processing is off, then which should really represent the
>element name - qName or localName? I agree with you that localName is
>the more natural candidate.

I'm also not certain that we want to encourage developers to look to qName 
for anything other than prefix-retrieval in any event.  I keep hearing of 
developers who rely solely on qName whatever the status of 
namespace-processing, and I guess it works for now...

Simon St.Laurent
"Every day in every way I'm getting better and better." - Emile Coue

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